Victory Classic
Previously known as All Malt Lager (Helles) & V Lager
There was a time when all beer tasted this good. Back when immigrant Brewmasters turned fresh malts and hops into liquid gold. Before big business lessened our precious beer with corn and rice. Having trained in Germany, we thirst for better beer. So, we brew better beer like this crisp, golden, helles-style lager. Brewed with patience from quality German malts and hops, it is a Victory for Your Taste!
Malt: Imported 2 row German malts
Hops: Whole flower German hops
There was a time when all beer tasted this good. Back when immigrant Brewmasters turned fresh malts and hops into liquid gold. Before big business lessened our precious beer with corn and rice. Having trained in Germany, we thirst for better beer. So, we brew better beer like this crisp, golden, helles-style lager. Brewed with patience from quality German malts and hops, it is a Victory for Your Taste!
Malt: Imported 2 row German malts
Hops: Whole flower German hops
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483 reviews
Downingtown, United States
Community reviews
Poured light gold. Faint bready aroma. Taste is wheat bread, but dry. Tastes like a slightly better Budweiser. Good entry point for non-craft-beer drinkers.
I think people are being overly critical about this beer. It's the beer at Victory you order for he person at the table who only drinks Bud Light.
I think it was a bad idea to rename this beer. V Lager you don't expect much. Helles Lager and people think it's supposed to be something special.
Smells a little like apple juice concentrate and honey. Sweet taste with a crisp refreshing mouthfeel. Low carbonation. Good summer/lawn mower beer.
If you want something a little more ballsy but in the same spectrum, I'd recommend their Prima Pils.
-Mykul
Appearance: A starkly clear pale yellow body with tiny bubbles and a generous white head. Nice looking.
Smell: Um, smells a little like adjuncts here. I get some lemon & a grassy feel but can’t help but feel the aroma is only a notch higher than a BMC.
Taste: A little better with a strong lemon overtone and some cereal or wheat also. Has a distinct aftertaste, like sulfur. Again, i find it tastes a little better than most macros but still, i kind of expected more.
Mouthfeel: Not too great. While it has a good zest and active carbonation that makes it lively, i find it soapy and not too comfortable in the palate.
On tap at KSQ. Golden yellow with a foamy frothy head and spotty lacing. Tons of bubbles racing to the top. Aromas of mild bready cereal, grains and light yeast. Taste is clean with basic lightly sweet malts,and light fruity yeasty esters. Light bodied, generous carbonation, smooth mouthfeel and a crisp finish.
Nice straw/gold color; Medium slightly creamy body: Aroma of malt, grain/hay, floral hops, & some caramel/honey; Flavor of slight sweet malt, grain, hops, caramel, and some fruit; Not too bad.
355ml bottle. Nice clear pale pour, white head. ARoma is malty, herbal but with a peanuty malt character. Falvor is again herbal peanut. It a weird helles, but its decent.
Bottle shared. Pours a clear golden color with a small off white head. The aroma and flavor have bready and biscuity malt, mild floral notes, straw, pretty basic and bland, I would not revisit this.
On tap at Victory Downingtown. It pours a golden yellow color with a white head. The aroma is a little bready and floral. The flavor is mildly bready and a little on the sweet side. Pale malts with hints of honey and flowers. Light bodied. Ok. Seems pretty authentic to me.
Clear pale gold with a tight white head. Aroma is corn like malt and some light fruity sweetness. Taste follows closely. Solid mouthfeel and lively carbonation. Super drinkable. True to style and very well executed.
Aroma is malts/pale malts and a hint of sweetness/butterscotch/vanilla. The flavor is pale malts, German yeast and a slightly spicy/hoppy finish.
Not overly hoppy so it makes a good light summer drinking beer that won't fill you up on a hot summer day. Definitely can taste the noble hops but very subtle.
Bottle. Poured clear golden color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate bread malt and floral hop aroma. Medium body with a smooth dry texture and soft carbonation. Medium bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Good beer.
A- definite malt sweetness, grainy, some baked bread, not much hop aroma
Ap- clear golden color, white head quickly fades
Fl- sweet malt up front, lacking a balanced hop bitterness in the mid and back palate soft finish that's slightly dry
Mf- may be slightly under carbonated, medium bodied,
Ov- good beer, like the malt aroma and flavor, wish there were more hops and carbonation.
An interesting and distinctive interpretation of the Helles style, lots of soft tropical fruit on the nose and in the taste, along with lots of sweet grainy malt. Some light grassy noble hops, but with a fruity pear-like accent. Soft water palate with lots of carbonation, decently refreshing. Low point was the appearance, very weak clear yellow, excessive bubbly carbonation. Not amazing, but different, and I would drink this again.
Pours a Dull yellow color. With lacing for a head. Good carbonation. Tastes of grass.
bottle @ Party Town / Florence KY --- Slightly hazy light amber color, thin white head cover, streamers of lace. Taste is caramel malt and edgy carbonation that grows a little sweeter through the swallow, with minimal hops in the finish. Very basic, okay, but not much going on.
Pours a deep golden color with a bubbly white head. Notes of honey, cereal grains, and some earth hops.
Pours out a slightly hazed, slightly orange yellow with a small white head. Aroma is herbal hop and german beer. Flavor shifts to a little more of a floral hop profile along with some honey sweetness. Relatively light mouthfeel is easy drinking.
Comes out of tap clear pale golden with a nice fine-bubbled eggshell head. Aroma is more apple and pear than malty, almost cider-like. Flavor has malty and fruity notes, not strong but refreshing. Mouthfeel has average fizz and body, and leaves a slightly dusty finish. OK, but will take the edge off a hot afternoon. Drink it while watching a game.
Brilliantly clear light golden with a thin white head. Clean biscuity/crackery lagery nose. Clean and crackery flavor with lots of pale German malts. Straight forward and lagery, with that Helles cleanness.
Golden, clear and bubbly with a thin white head. Malty aroma. Crisp and refreshing. Pretty light bodied. Not bad.
Pours a clear golden color with white head. Cereal grains and a little hay on the nose; follows onto the palate. Light bodied. Finishes pretty clean.
Date: July 10, 2015... Glassware: 22 oz. pilsner... Occasion: craftbrew showdown--Susquehanna Goldencold vs. Victory Helles... Appearance: pale yellow body that suppresses clusters of bubbles at the glass’s base; large, sporadic burps float upward; excellent head retention of a spongy, full white head; head simmers to solar flares and thick, bubbly hedgerows.... Aroma: a flowery, medium-hopped impression arrives immediately; the stress on German hops and malts is not lost in the product, as a pleasant, welcoming allure of herbs greets the usual cereal and hay of the lager.... Palate: immediate impact on the throat, though the aftertaste is fleeting; soft on the mouth, with a light, apologetic drinkability--definitely intended for swift sipping in sixes; little weight or fizz, but adequately carbonated; not surprisingly, little bitterness to the finish... Taste: again, a floral softness pillows the tongue and exerts a ticklish presence upon the teeth; a release of perfumed lilacs and other botanicals occurs with each sip; a bit sweeter than sour, which is to be expected; smooth and sippable, but begging to be slammed... Overall: I am rating this under the assumption that this was the V Lager I had decades ago, now under a new name but still profiling as the German standout that it was (is)---a treat to revisit old friends, and this beer certainly takes me back to the early years of my beer passion, with its drinkability and gateway familiarity to the less nuanced, more mainstream lagers; Victory has always had my bias, but this is the reason we drink--to enjoy without serious analysis; this beer needs little metrics or measure; just a solid approximation of the style...
12 oz. bottle Pours a medium white, tiny bubbled, well retained white head over a clear, effervescent straw (SRM 2) body......nose is slightly malt sweet, with hints of light colored fruits (pear, apple), biscuit, bread notes with cereal malts, light noble hop aromas, balance slightly to the malts......taste is lightly malt sweet, with hints of cereal, biscuit, becoming dry, with light spicy hop bitterness, balanced.....mouth feel, light body, no alcohol, high carbonation slight acid. This a light refreshing, nicely balanced style, which is not overly complex. This beer meets those criteria. BJCP 9/3/15/5/7
It Pours golden with some lacing. It has mild malt character with some grass hops. It is fairly smooth with light bitterness.
It’s a good helles! I’ve only had one that was measurably better and that was out of a German brewery in Fort Collins, Zwei Brewing. The aroma is clean and the appearance is too. Taste is toasted malt, crusty bread, and a balanced sweetness with a hint of earth hops. Finish is light and crisp. My only criticism is that I would have liked just a little bit more toasty malt flavor. It goes well with heavy food!
Bottle from Winooski beverage warehouse. Clear gold pour with small fizzy white head, not the best appearance. Aroma is really grainy, nice full grainy aroma, crisp bready/biscuity notes, very light caramel. Taste is lightly sweet, good husky grainy flavor, bordering on acrid bitter, but always inside the line, fresh bread, very light leafy finish. Palate is light-med bodied with good carbonation, dry and superbly drinkable. A fine helles and another great lager from Victory.
Not a lot going on here. Some crisp malt, paper aroma. Golden pour. Just what you would expect it to be. Bottle pour sampled at whole foods.
12 oz. bottle.
, A little sweeter than other helles, but very nice. A little more hops as well. Better than the famous Yueling Lager I think.
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 8/3/2015. Pours crystal clear bright golden yellow color with a small dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of light lemon, cracker, biscuit, herbal, straw, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt and earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of light lemon, cracker, biscuit, herbal, straw, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal/grassy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of cracker, biscuit, herbal, straw, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Good balance and solid robustness of pale malt and earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. A good amount of dryness present as well. Very clean on lager flavors with zero yeast ester notes present. Medium carbonation and light-medium bodied; with a very smooth, crisp, and clean mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a nice Helles style. All around good balance and solid robustness of pale malt and earthy hop flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.